Woke up (<>!) and had a shower before we walked over, in Avalon, to this little fast food place for breakfast. It had Mexican and Chinese food as well as donuts and beignets. I had the latter, they were okay. Then we had a longer walk around the village, this time heading inland to see the remnants of the old Wrigley ballfield (nothing much to identify it for its previous use). We walked back down to the shore, and it was pretty quiet, still too early for the cruise ship passengers to be in town. Then we headed back to the hotel to hang out and have some chill time before we checked out around 11:00. Over to the dock for the boat ride back to the mainland. Not so many people were on the ride back, I'm guessing that they are much busier on the afternoon trip. The ride was smooth and uneventful, took about 90 minutes. There was an issue with the parking, I suspected we would run into it since Joe and Cathie had had a problem. But I worked it out without having to pay any more, and we were on the road and back toward home. Some slowing around Oceanside and then in Vista, where they had road construction that took a lane away. Still, we got home in a little over an hour. Quiet afternoon, where I planned to take another look at my bike and try to solve the creaking noise problem. I loosened the headset and gave everything a good application of grease, but I was wary about taking off the little plate that holds the lower bearing in place, so I left that alone. The torque wrench worked fine. I applied the torque in stages for the headset bolt, as recommended in the service manual I downloaded to my tablet. Blair came over as I was finishing up, I took it for a ride and the bike was still creaking. So we went back into the headset, removing that little plate, and Blair pried off the dust covers on the bearing and cleaned out the old grease and grime with WD-40 before packing it back up with grease. He did that twice, and the bike still creaked when I rode it. So he had a ride on it and guessed that the creaking sound was coming from the seat area. I listened as well, and maybe he was right. It was hard to tell, the sound was propagating through the top tube. In any case, we loosened the bolt for the seat post and took it off, inspected it, and put it back, tightening it to the recommended 5 N. Voila! The creaking sound went away. I hope that was it. I couldn't get the sound to come back but will monitor it for a while. So, the bike is pretty thoroughly serviced from recent work, including the drivetrain, headset, and seatpost. I still have work to do on the hydraulic brakes, including replacing the brake pads soon and perhaps bleeding the brake lines at that time. Blair and I talked for quite a while after that while having a beer. He mentioned that he saw Teresa a couple of times over the weekend after running into her on a bike ride. I'm not sure she is a good fit, there are warning signs, but we'll see where it goes. I watched a little TV in the evening.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
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